Door-hanger



L. KULES.

000 HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.131 1920.

Patented May 3, 1921.

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Washington,

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LEO RULES, or mounr wesnme 'on, PENNSYLVANIA.

DOOR-HANGER.

To all whomqlt may concern Be it known that I, LEO of the United States,residing at Mount in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania,have invented new and useful Improvements in Door- Hangers, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to door hangers, and more particularly to ahanger especially-adapted to be used in connection with garage doors.

One of the main objects of the invention is to provide a hanger by meansof which the door may be readily adjusted vertically and toward and awayfrom the door opening so as to accommodate swelling or warping of thedoor sill or casing. Another object is to provide a hanger which willprevent sagging .of any of the door sections. A further object is toprovide a swivel support for the door sections so as to permit the sameto turn sharp corners to facilitate travel of the door upon an L-shapedtrack,- such as now in common use in garages, from in frontvofthedooropening into a position atone side of and within the garage. Furtherobjects will appear from the detailed tions and the hinge 1n%removed. jas description In the drawings Figure 1 is .a side view, partly insection, of the hanger applied, one of the door secleaf carried therebybe-..

ig. 2 is an inside front view of the hanger as applied. I Fig. 3 is asection taken-substantially on line 33 of Fig. 2. The-hanger includesahousing 1 within which is rotatably mounted a grooved wheel 2constituting a truck member adapted to track 3 of known type which atravel upon a preferably extends above the door opening and along oneside of the garage in the known manner so as to permit the door to bemoved from in front of the door opening into a position closel adjacentand parallel with one side wall 0 the garage. a

.The lower end portion of the inner plate of housing 1 is turnedupwardly and outwardly and bifurcated-to form an upwardly directed hookelement composed of two spaced fingers 4. These fingers receive betweenthem a neck 5 extendin upwardly from the central portion of big t 6 ofan 7 inverted U-shaped bracket 6, and provided Specification of Letterslatent.-

Kumzs, a citizen- .17 the door may at its upper end with an enlargedcylindrlcal head 7 seated in the hook. This pro- VldGS' a swivel supportwhich permits the. bracket to turn in either direction about a verticalaxis and to any desired extent so Patented May 3, 1921.

Application filed March 13, 1920. Serial No. 365.528.

that the door can readily make short turns.

An adjusting screw 8 is mounted for free rotation 1n either directionthrough the arms of bracket 6, and is held against endwise movement ineither direction by a hexagonal head 9 anda cotter pin 10 and washer 11.This screw is threaded through an eye 12. of a depending;-eye bolt 13the shank of which passes through the interfitting sleeves 14 of hingeleaves 15 secured. to

the inner faces of two adjacent door sec tions 16. The lower portion ofshank 13 of the eye bolt is threaded at 13 to receive 'a nut 17 whichbears against a washer 18 interposed between the nut and the lowermosthinge sleeve 14. The eye bolt thus serves as a pintle for the hinge,

point of suspension of the door sections is in vertical alinement withthe hinge pintle thus insuringproper balancing of the door sections andeffectually eliminating all tendency of any one section to sag away fromthe adjacent section, which frequently occurs when hangers positioned toone side of the hinge, such as are now commonly used, are employed.Also, by means of nut cally and accommodate swelling or warping of thedoor sill or casing.

' The track 3 .is secured in an suitable manner to a beam A which may eset into the wall B of the garage, or secured to the wall in anypreferred or well known man'- ner. This track is preferably of L-shape.extending above the door opening and along one side of the garage. oftwo or more hingedly connected sections,

The door is formed the end sections forming door elements to permitready access .of a person to the garage without the necessity of movingthe whole door structure; In this respect, the

' swivel support for the eye bolt 13 is of value in permitting the doorsections to make the track thus short .turns about the an le of dangerof t edoor'bin'ding or eliminating j ammingl As will be noted clearlyfrom Figs.

'1 and 3, the bolt 13 is provided with a radially projecting tongue 19which is rigid with the bolt and fits between the door secand the.

be readily adjusted vertiso as to properly fit the door opening tionswhich are provided with recesses 20 for this purpose. This tongue holdsthe bolt against turning movement relative to the door sections andinsures that bracket 6 Wlll be held at right angles to the door so as topermit ready access to head 9 of screw 8 and facilitate adjustment ofthe door toward or away from the door opening;

As will be understood, slight changes .may be made in the details ofconstruction and arrangement of parts of the invention without departingfromthe field and scope of the about avertical axis, a member adapted tobe attached to a door, and an adjusting screw freely rotatable in thebracket and held against endwise movement therethrough, said screw beingthreaded through the upper end of said member. I

2. In a door hanger, a truck including a depending plate provided withspaced upwardly curved fingers, a bracket of substantially invertedU-shape provided at its bight portion with a neck passing between saidfingers and provided at its upper end with an enlarged head fitting intothe fingers, an eye bolt, and an adjusting screw rotatably mountedthrough the arms of the bracket and threaded through the eye of thebolt, said screw being held against endwise movement through the bracketarms.

3. In combination with two adjacent door sections and hinge leavessecured thereto and having interengaging sleeves, a bolt having itsshank passed through said sleeves, an abutment member secured on thebolt be- L low the sleeves, a truck, a bracket suspended from said truckand movable about a vertical axis, said bolt being provided at its upperend with an eye disposed parallel with the door sections, an adjustingscrew rotatably mountedin the bracket and threaded through said eye, andmeans for holding the bolt against turning movement relative to the doorsections. T

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

LEO KULES.

